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Omigoat, why is it the authorities are so frikkin’ unable to take a joke?!

A blogger was charged in a sessions court in Petaling Jaya today with posting a parody on his blog, aimed at Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB).

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) accused Irwan Abdul Rahman, 36, of using the Internet [...]

Some good news via Singapore’s intrepid Online Citizen:

January 2011 – that’s the date the Registrar of the Supreme Court has set for the Court of Appeal to hear Yong Vui Kong’s appeal against the High Court’s decision on his judicial review application.

Vui Kong’s lawyer was today informed that the appeal hearing has been set “for [...]

Via MT: the reason why RPK got taken off BBC?

The BBC researches many different stories, it is the normal process of news and current affairs throughout the media that not all make it to air for a variety of editorial reasons.

In this case, it became clear in our research that any comprehensive interview with [...]

I spent a pleasant evening with a young reporter yesterday, who was filled with passion, a drive to do investigative reporting, and hoped to work for CNN one day.

I was reluctant at first to join any of the Merdeka twitter hash tags thing, thinking of Teoh Beng Hock, Kugan, Aminulrasyid, and the rest.

Manesh though reminded [...]

For all our goofs, we sometimes get some things right.

I thought this a very measured, and above all, extremely learned piece, which analyses the mosque entering controversy from a scholarly perspective.

Take away the hype, and the hate scented hyperbole, and this is what the facts and religious scholarship suggests.

I’ve met Dr. Manuty, and he seemed [...]

Some of you may have heard of Alfred Ho, who used to write occasionally to Malaysiakini, and once memorably told me, “If even a blind man can see how the country is being destroyed, so should the rest of the rakyat.”

This one time social political blogger has recently made his Youtube debut – I believe due to [...]

Much work to attend to, but just a quick chronicle of yesterday’s events. First stop was a press conference on the confiscations of Kim Quek’s book.

Along with Body 2 Body, 1FunnyMalaysia, Where is Justice, and hot on the heels of dismissals of TV producers and radio DJ’s, I think we are seeing a systemic clampdown [...]

Firstly, can I say that Newsweek’s website for this is a total piece of crap. Higher tech is not necessarily better you idiots! Most important is ease of browsing and spreading info!

This post is sadly not as good as it could be, and i blame Newsweek :P

Nonetheless.

So, our friend Najib so proudly tweeted [...]

This is really too much. Trying to pick on some unknown bookstore owner?!?

A book vendor, who was initially investigated under the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA), had discovered yesterday that she now faces a sedition charge instead.

Police officers paid Hawee Othman’s bookshop a visit in May and informed her that they were [...]

(nono, that's not Jamal)

You know, I think records will show that I didn’t give Dr. Chua a hard time for his err.. ‘hard’ time depicted above (except occasionally on Twitter, when I cannot resist similarly bad puns :)

But this last week this guy has been really getting my goat.

Firstly, I cannot stand this stupid [...]

Knowing full well how they feel, I wanted to express solidarity with Kim Quek, Amir Muhammad, Pang Khee Teik, Jerome Kugan, et al. Their two books pictured above have been confiscated from bookstores – years after their publication :P

(I can just imagine our government officials pouring over Body 2 Body: “Eh, [...]

Due to interest, I’m having a second info session for those interested in my 2010 US Applications classes.

As a number of students wanted to attend the session but were unable to make the time, we are having a second info session this Saturday.

Please do try to make it, or at least get in [...]